反転 – Vocabulary details

反はん転てん

Meanings

Noun

Verb (する, transitive)

1. rolling over; turning over

少しょう女じょの体からだが反はん転てんした。The girl's body rolled over.

2. turning around (the other way); reversal (of direction, course, etc.); inversion; flipping

彼かの女じょの中なかにあった好こう意いは見み事ごとに反はん転てんし、憎ぞう悪おへと変かわっていた。The affection she had felt had completely reversed and turned into hatred.

3. producing a positive from a negative; producing a negative from a positive

4. circle inversion; plane inversion

Kanji used

反

be against

転

roll around

Pitch accent

は

んてん

Conjugations...Used in: 1610

Composed of

反はん

anti-; antithesis; fanqie; traditional Chinese spelling system in which two characters are used: the first one for the onset, the second one for rhyme and tone

転てん

change in pronunciation or meaning of a word; sound change; word with an altered pronunciation or meaning; turning or twisting part of a text (in Chinese poetry)